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With introduction of Drupal 8 in 2015 and it’s major changes, things started to become more difficult for new and even experienced developers to upgrade their Drupal 6/7 sites or start from scratch in Drupal 8. At the time, Drush was the go to tool for managing Drupal projects in different versions but a new tool was required specifically for latest version of Drupal, named Drupal Console.
During a decade of using Drupal, i really understood the concept of open source community and why it matters. That is why you see Drupal’s slogan as: come for software, stay for community. I remember using Drupal 5 as a simple Blogging System, Drupal 6 as a Content Management System and Drupal 7 as a Content Management Framework. Now in the days of Drupal 8 i don’t know what should we call the giant codebase, maybe Content Management Infrastructure but it is more than a software for managing content on the web and it is the most complex version released since it’s birth on 2001.
In contrast to PHP: The Right Way, the focus of this document is mainly based on why all these trends in PHP community formed and how can we, as computer scientists and software engineers, find the best solution on a particular problem and keep our mind open for different scenarios. This is a much more philosophical writing rather than technical.So, be careful!
One of the challenging aspects of software engineering process is documentation and for international projects is localization or simply l10n. There are a lot of resources about each and every topic that you can imagine for software development best practices. In PHP community, the presence of PHP: The Right Way and it’s well known contributors with tons of languages available surprised me and minutes after reading the document i had the same question: why there is no translation for my language?
The goal of this project and others in Jalaali Organiztion is to provide a robust and powerful API for different programming languages and platforms in order to solve the problem of Gregorian to Jalaali calendar system convertion and vice versa.